Atomic Physics in Pure Anglo-Saxon

kazinator•about 7 hours ago

It works like this in some languages; e.g. Japanese technical terminology is linked word formation originating from Chinese.

Atom: 原子: (genshi) "primitive progeny".

Element: 原素: (genso) "primitive element".

Hydrogen: 水素: (suiso) "water element".

Oxygen: 酸素: (sanso) "acid element".

Carbon: 炭素: (tanso) "charcoal element".

Chlorine: 塩素: (enso) "salt element".

Coal: 石炭: (sekitan) "stone charcoal".

Carbon dioxide: 二酸化炭素 (nisan-ka tanso): "two acid/'oxid' -ized carbon".

Line, ray: 線: line, ray.

Ultraviolet ray: 紫外線 (shigaisen): "purple outside-of ray".

Infrared ray: 赤外線 (sekigaisen): "red outside-of ray".

Deep infrared: 遠赤外線 (ensekigaisen): "far red outside-of ray".

Yamanote train line: 山手線 (yamanotesen). :)

Amplification: 増幅 (zōfuku) "increase width".

Instrument: 器 (ki).

Amplifier: 増幅機 (zōfuku ki) "increase width instrument".

Difference: 差 (sa)

Differential amplifier: 差動増幅器 (sadō zōfukuki) "difference movement increase width instrument"

nephihaha•9 days ago

I'm amazed at how much I could understand of that. I presume ymirstuff is uranium. Many of the others are more obvious.

oliculipolicula•7 days ago

Odd: "Germanstuff" for Titanium.. did Poul mean Entstuff? (Didn't read enough Tolkien?)

Was perhaps actually inspired by modern German.. surprisingly, "Stoff" is from old french via early modern(!) Dutch. Proper A-S might be "andwork/anwerk[.de]"

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/andweorc

Cathay-andwork (for chinesium)

Unbeget-andwork (for unobtainium)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Stoff#German

kazinator•about 8 hours ago

If titanium is germanstuff, whose stuff is germanium? :)

psd1•about 2 hours ago

Germanium is used to dope silicon, excuse me, sometimebernlikestuff, so i guess it might be gridnudgestuff.

aappleby•about 2 hours ago

This was lovely.

rramadass•about 8 hours ago

The wikipedia article linked to in the beginning contains a glossary if you want to understand this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncleftish_Beholding

donw•about 8 hours ago

We need to start teaching everything in Anglo-Saxon:

"Some of the higher samesteads are splitly. That is, when a neitherbit strikes the kernel of one, as for a showdeal ymirstuff-235, it bursts into lesser kernels and free neitherbits; the latter can then split more ymirstuff-235. When this happens, weight shifts into work. It is not much of the whole, but nevertheless it is awesome."

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